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Overall, I don't think it's going to go over very well. But John Roberts has just given Barack Obama a signal victory, and he may have given Barack Obama a second term as president of the United States. Four of those justices were ready not only to overturn the individual mandate, but the entire "Obamacare" law. Had John Roberts joined them, the whole thing would be gone now and Barack Obama would have nothing to show for his first four years, basically, but a bad economy. Here's what John Roberts did. I understand his sentiment. It's a conservative sentiment. He says we ought not to be deciding these things. The elected representatives should. But this was such an open-and-shut case of a seizure of power by the federal government that he should have acted on it, but he failed to act. And as a consequence of that, I think, John Roberts may well have reelected Barack Obama.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate, the core provision of President Obama's overhaul of the health care system. The mandate requires that Americans must buy health insurance. If they do not, they must pay a tax penalty. In a 5-4 decision, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing the majority opinion, the court reasoned that Congress has the right to impose taxes, and the health mandate can be construed as a tax, quote: Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness, wrote Chief Justice John Roberts. |
